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The 44th Arab Committee Meeting

14 March 2008

The 44th  Arab Committee Meeting was held in during the period from 5 to 8 March 2008 with the attendance of the following Committee Members:

- Essia Fathallah, Chairman, Arab Committee 
- Abla Abu Nawar, member, Arab Committee; 
- Sajda Gasem AlHoly, member, Arab Committee; 
- Noura Noomani Jaroudi, member, Arab Committee; 
- Monjeya Ahmad Alghadamsy, member, Arab Committee; 
- Mona Abdel-Ghany Elshal, member, Arab Committee. 

And WAGGGS representatives: 
- Liesbeth Lijnzaad, member, World Board 
- Sally O’Neil, Regional Operations Director.  

Micheline Antonian, the Regional director  was unable to attend due to heath reasons. All attendees wished her a speedy recovery.

The meeting was preceded by a two day’s induction training for the newly elected Arab Committee which met successfully the following set objectives: 
- Sharing of information 
- Better understanding of ways of work 
- Establish good practice in communication 
- Building of a team



The Committee Meeting was very successful as it gave members the opportunity to discuss  and agree on ways to  develop Guiding in the Arab Region through evaluating the previous operational plan 2005-2008 and discussing the ways to implement the next Operational Plan 09-11 in light of the results of the Performance Indicators.




The Committee also evaluated the last Regional Conference that was held in Tunis in 2007. Results will help in organizing the next Regional Conference. Information was given on the World Conference that will be held in July 2008 and the Committee discussed ways to encourage all MOs to attend.
There were also presentations on Advocacy, World Update as well as the General Report and those Committee Members who carried out assignment gave also their report... 

The Committee elected Noura Jaroudi as its Vice-Chairman. This election process should have been done during the Regional Conference in May 2007 but the committee then decided to postpone the election as not all elected Members were present. We wish Noura all the best in this new and challenging position.